May 27, 2024 • 37 mins
Wayne Resnick hosts Handel on the News along with Amy King. At least 19 dead as tornadoes and storms batter central U.S. At least 35 killed in Israeli airstrike on displaced persons camp in Rafah, health ministry says, hours after Hamas fired rockets into Israel. TSA marks record number of passengers as Memorial Day weekend kicks off. Infectious person with measles traveled through LAX, health officials warn. Chase Oliver wins Libertarian Party presidential nomination. More than 2,000 believed buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide, government says. Leaders of South Korea, China, and Japan to resume trilateral meeting.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty. Ladies
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and gentlemen, Here's Wayne Resnick kfI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Good Morning, It'sa Phill Handles show. He's taking Memorial
Day off. Wayne Resne here fillingin until nine o'clock and then I believe
Neil Savedra, who's normally here onthis show, is filling in for Gary
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N. Shannon. So Amy,thank you. First of all, thank
you to Amy King. Why becauseyou are allowing us later in the show
to replay an interview that you did. Oh yes, but Ted Kaebnerck Run
for the Walls. The Run forthe Wall where people get on their motorcycles
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and they leave I think they leftfrom Ontario, yeah, weeks ago,
California. They go all across thecountry and they end up in Washington,
d C. They go to ArlingtonNational Cemetery, they go to the Vietnam
War Memorial and along the way theystop at different locations that are also veteran
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related. So they go across thecountry, stopping periodically to pay their respects
in various ways. They even stoppedthis You probably did not get into with
him, but they made us stopin Nitro, West Virginia, which is
right outside Charleston, West Virginia,where I had the experience of living,
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okay, for six years. Longtime to experience that, huh, well,
yes, long enough that as soonas I got out of college,
I came right back to California.But I know the Nitro area and everything,
so I know where they went.And that was pretty cool. And
that was a and I guarantee youthis, that was a big deal for
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the people of Nitro, West Virginiato have a visit from the run to
the wall people. Hey, anytimeyou have twelve hundred bikes rolling through town,
it's going to be a big deal. Yeah, So thank you in
advance for allowing us to repurpose yourintellectual property. Of course, all right,
we are ready for handle on thenews now. It's me. It's
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Amy King. And here's the leadstory. Storms tornadoes battering a lot of
the Central United States. Texas,Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee,
Kansas got some of it already,eight tornadoes yesterday. Yeah, and they're
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saying, get used to it now. From now through summer, it's gonna
just be The United States of Americais just gonna be a tornado factory.
Nineteen deaths have been reported at leastobviously that will probably go up. But
the other part of it hundreds ofthousands of homes and businesses without power,
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which is problematic because in Texas it'slike one hundred degrees m h. That's
right, it's not the right weatherto have your patn I don't know if
it's ever the right weather to haveyour your power go out, but let's
say sixty eight relative humidity of fiftypercent, maybe it's not the end of
the world if your power goes outfor a while. So there's so many
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people suffering right now in the wakeof these storms. And you know,
they pushed back the Indy five hundredbecause of the weather because there was lightning,
and they made everybody get out ofthere and take shelter, and then
finally when it cleared, they leteverybody go back in so they could run
that race. So it's affecting alot of things. Israel continues to ramp
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up its attacks on Rafa. Dozensof people have been killed in an Israeli
airstrike in Santhera, Gaza Action aidUK is saying at least fifty people,
including civilians, were killed when Israelifighter jets launched eight missiles at makeshift shelters.
And of course the outrage on thisis that these places were supposed to
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be safe spaces for the civilians,but then Action aid UK says they became
targets of brutal violence. The IsraeliDefense forces say that two top Hamas officials
were killed in the air strike.They say they were in that area and
they took them out. This isthe problem when you're dealing with gorilla warriors
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who do embed themselves among civilians.That doesn't mean every single place where there
are civilians in Gaza, there's alsoHamas. But what happens is so they
do that, and then Israel theycan say anytime they want, Hey,
you're saying it was civilians that webombed, but there were Hamas people in
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there that we were trying to getat, and it's Hamas's fault every time
we bomb civilians. It's the faultof Hamas for doing what they do.
And you get to a point whereit's like, okay, can you trust
Israel every time they say that becauseyou're not going to get pristinely accurate information
from either side on this situation.It's bad optics and amy. What do
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you think of the International Court ofJustice ordering Israel to stop it? Which
I'm sorry, it's not a funnysituation, but it's funny because they have
no authority. Yeah, I don'tunderstand anything. I don't understand why it's
even there. What does the InternationalCourt do if it has no authority?
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Well, there are things they cando. There are disputes, usually between
Usually what you have are disputes betweentwo sovereign or could be more than two
I guess sovereign entities, and it'salmost always some kind of land dispute or
something like that. And they cango there and say you decide, International
Court of Justice, that's this kindof a thing. Is not really even
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what they were set up for.And my point is what you really diminish
your credibility when you order people todo things when you're not in a position
of authority to order them to doanything. It's like the difference between if
Robin Bertolucci called right now and said, I want you to talk about the
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new sandwich at subway. She's ourboss. So if she says, I
order you to talk about and Idon't even know if there is a new
sandwich at subway, but I orderyou to talk about. Then we would
have to do it because if wedidn't, we could get in some kind
of trouble. But if like theguy who manned the exit at the parking
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garage here at KFI called up andsaid, I order you guys to talk
about the new sandwich at subway,we would just go who do you think
you are? And that's what theInternational Court of Justice is doing to themselves.
They could have issued some kind ofresolution like we we isshue a resolution
that we don't like it. Wecondemn it, we condemned, Yes,
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we condemn it. They have theeverybody has the authority to condemn. They
do not have the authority to orderanything. And of course Israel turned around
and said this is crazy, likethey're out of it, they're out of
their minds at the International Court ofJustice, and that it's anti Semitic that
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they issued this order that has noteeth in it. Okay, this whole
thing with the upside down flag flyingat the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito. And remember when social mediawent crazy with a picture of an upside
down flag at his house in likeearly twenty twenty one, and everybody was
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saying, this is the same thingthat the election deniers were doing, and
that the stop the Steel people weredoing, and look at it, they're
now Alito's doing it, and thatmeans he's a big He thinks the election
was stolen, and he is biased, and he should not be involved in
anything having to do with January sixthor presidential immunity or anything else. And
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now were finding out that it seemsto be something different, a different reason
that that flag was flying upside downat their house and we and we would
have known it already and would haveknown it a long time ago if the
Washington Post had not decided to burythe story, because apparently the real story
is the Alitos. And I'm noteven sure if it was both of them
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having this beef with a neighbor.It may just have been his wife.
A Washington Post reporter back in twentytwenty one showed up at their house and
missus Alito Martha, and Alito waslike, get out of here, man,
and he was like, what's withthe flag upside down? And she
said, it's an international signal ofdistress. Why don't you ask them,
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meaning her neighbors, ask them whatthey did? And then the Washington Post
decided not to publish the story becausethis was a dispute between neighbors, and
it really isn't a big deal.I mean, it's not a big deal
in terms of any kind of nationalanything. It's probably a big deal if
you're in the neighborhood and you've gotall this drama going on, yes,
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between the neighbors. But I guessmy point is is that we could have
known this when it was happening,and the Washington Post just decided not to
report on it. So now yearslater, years later, these photos leak
and everybody jumps to a different conclusion. But did the photos leak or did
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the Washington Post put the photos out? Well, the photos started showing up
on social media, and that's whynow the Washington Post is like, oh,
oh hey, wait a minute,everybody, this big kerfuffle about the
upside down flight. We actually knowsomething about it. Oh well, thanks
guys. By the way, alittle side note, apparently the neighbor I
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don't know if this is the entiredispute but the neighbor had a sign f
Trump sign and it was near abus stop for a school, and then
apparently another sign disparaging Missus Alito andalso allegedly used the C word to refer
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to Missus Alito. So don't buya house in that neighborhood right now,
a lot of fighting, but hopefullyputting this to rest that they said,
oh, it's because Alito's an electiondenier. Right, if you want to
get away, you're not going tobe alone because it's very, very crowded
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at the airports. And just wantto let you know too that they've issued
a ground stop in Atlanta's airport becauseof the severe weather. So this is
a busy travel day, so officialsare saying, hey, if you're going
to travel, make sure you checkthose fights. First Friday was a record
Yeah, two point nine million peoplewere screened at airport across the country on
Friday. That is the most individualsscreened by the TSA in twenty two years,
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two million, nine hundred and fiftyone, one hundred and sixty three
passengers. And between Friday last Fridayand Wednesday Mondays from now yep, eighteen
million are expected to go through that'sa lot. Oh oh man, that
those HUDs and news are they're goingto be miserable clogged with people trying to
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get beef jerky, I know.And you know they say that a lot
of people are flying this Memorial Daybecause like airfares are down and all of
that. I'm like, not whereI'm looking like to go to a little
Medford, Oregon, which is myhometown. Six hundred bucks. It's because
it's i know, it's a smallerairport and it doesn't have as many options
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and that kind of stuff. Butstill that's that's higher, way higher than
it usually is. That's very pricey, and that's why you're here. Yeah.
And also people among these record peoplegoing through the airports on Friday,
people at LAX got a little somethingextra exposure to measles, they say,
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La County Public Health officials have confirmedsomebody with measles went through the Tom Bradley
International Terminal. This was actually backon May nineteenth, and they were infectious
with the highly contagious disease of measles. They came in on a flight and
then they were in the airport forfive hours and then they got a connecting
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flight out. Now let's be realistic. People sitting next to this person on
the plane, they have something tobe concerned about, and whatever people were
near this person in the terminal havesomething to be concerned about. I'm yes.
If you're not vaccinated, I'm fine. You're fine, and is fine,
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Kono is fine because we were notin terminal seven and we're vaccinated that
as well. You know, thiswas supposed to be eradicated, and then
when some people decided they weren't goingto get a measles vaccine, it opened
the door just a little bit formeasles measles to poke its head out and
go, hey, wait a minute. I think some of you people want
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me back here. I am yeah, but you're right. Most of us
are just fine. Sad news.A star is going out at Disney.
Oh, Jim Jimmy be Jim Jimmy, Me Jim Jim Jimmy us. We've
been as lucky as lucky compy Disneysongwriting legend Richard M. Sherman, remembered
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for Mary Poppins and It's a SmallWorld, along with a lot of others,
has died. He was ninety fiveyears old. He died Saturday in
Beverly Hills. Disney people are sayinghe was a prolific composer, lyricist,
and a key member of Walt Disney'sinner circle of creative talents, and an
Academy Award winner with his brother.He wrote with his brother, Robert B.
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Sherman. They won Academy Awards forMary Poppins Best Score and Best Orational
Best Song for Jim Chimchim Cherie.Yeah, he might actually make a lot
of people mad because he wrote It'sa small world, you know, it's
just a catch. Did they cometo him and say did Walt come to
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him and say, I want youto write a tune that we're going to
play on a loop when people gothrough a ride and it's a ride where
they're going to go inside a placein a little boat, and sometimes the
ride will break down and they willbe stuck in there for a long time
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with the song on a loop?Can you write me something like that?
And he went, Ooh, what'sthe most devious ear where I can come
up with? I don't think so. I think he meant no harm And
there's no rule that says you haveto play the same song all the way
through the ride. I understand,right, they I haven't been on It's
a Small World in a very longtime. But it's the same song,
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but as you go through it's indifferent languages and styles. Yeah, isn't
that right? Amy, I'm lookingat you. You're the Disney expert here.
I was just on it last week. Okay, So, I mean
I sort of understand, but youcould have different, completely different songs throughout
the ride. Maybe they only wantedto pay Richard Sherman for one song for
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the ride. He was like,how long's the ride? It's about five
minutes. No, it's a longone. Oh it's fifteen minutes. Oh
geez, fifteen. He's like,well, let me give you five songs.
Then you're gonna watch five songs,and wals like, no, no,
no, no, we only haveone a budget for one song,
but don't you worry. We're gonnamix it up with with Sometimes it'll just
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be regler singing, and sometimes it'llbe racially offensive and ethnically offensive singing.
Not offensive in any way, shapeor form. It's a wonderful thing.
And here's the other one that hewrote, the tikk Tik Tiki Room.
He's good at those earworm songs.Yeah, Oh, definitely. His stuff
was in Chitty Chitty Bang Banks,Who Become Home, Charlotte's Webb, The
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and something called The Slipper and the
Rose. Is that a Cinderella themedmovie from nineteen seventy six, because I've
never heard of it. It's aCinderella bachelor mashup. Have you seen?
I have no idea. I've neverheard of that. Okay. Johnny Wachter
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was an actor who was on GeneralHospital for two or three years and he
was gunned down in Los Angeles whenhe happened to come across three people who
were stealing the catalytic converter off ofhis car, which is a very popular
thing to have happen. It's apopular crime. Typically, you don't have
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murderous devils doing that kind of crime. Usually it's people who if you come
across them, they will either runaway or they'll just keep They'll just keep
cutting off your catalytic converter. Theywon't stop. But these three guys were
masked, they were obviously armed,and he was shot and he has passed
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away. That's really sad, Okay, who that was my question when I
started reading this story. Chase Oliverhas won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.
It happened on Sunday at the party'sconvention after seven rounds of voting. The
thirty eight year old has previously runfor Congress several times in Georgia. He
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says he got two point one percentof the vote when he ran for Senate
in Georgia, and he says hebelieves that getting two percent of the vote
nationally in November's general election is areasonable goal. It probably maybe it is
a reasonable goal. And I'm gladto see that he's not pretending that he
could actually become the president like RFKJunior. Yeah, at least this guy
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is saying, look, we're herejust to have some kind of a presence,
and if I can get two percentof the vote, then I don't
know, we can go to Bidenor Trump, whichever one is really going
to become the president, and wecan say you should at least listen to
some of our ideas because there aresome of us out here. We are
part of the American political landscape.US libertarians never mind that libertarianism is a
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is a It's like a cartoon character. In the world of politics, it's
not real and it will never bereal. You can't actually have a libertarian
country. It's impossible because it's basedon it's based on the idea that the
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government's going to do like three thingsand everything else is going to be private
sector, free economy. Your road'sgetting paved, your fire departments, you
know your neighborhood will hire a policeofficer and just name. So I just
say name to me. In thehistory of the world, one libertarian country
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that ever existed, thank you.A man's been arrested after police say he
threw a flammable substance on somebody elseat a subway station in New York City.
Nile Taylor is the perpetrators I guessalleged perpetrator's name. He's forty nine,
facing charges of assault and arson andreckless endangerment. He threw this stuff
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on another person to set their shirton fire. I think that person it's
gonna be okay, thank goodness.But here's the kicker. So they arrest
him, and they had double arresthim because they also say he did this
another time back in February on atrain platform in New York City. Where
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he threw a lit container of flammableliquid at a group of people. So
he's got double cases for doing thesame kind of thing here. Look in
Los Angeles, people say Los Angelesis different than New York. We have
the best tacos, they have thebest pizza. We have Hollywood, they
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have Broadway. We have stabbings onour public transit. They have people throwing
gasoline on other people. H sixthone half does in the other. Yeah,
I know how. And he's beenarrested for this before and probably was
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immediately released, which puts him outthere. Don't know how he fits,
Yeah, don't know exactly how hefits into the criminal justice reform of New
York City. Well, they havezero right or cashless bail. They have
cashless or zero bail too, nocash bail. Yeah, but in this
case, we don't know. I'll, you know, here's what I'll do,
even though I don't know when I'llbe back to say anything about it.
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But I'll keep an eye on thisguy and see kind of what happens
with him. Okay. Uh.In eco friendly Santa Monica, they're not
very happy, of course. Ican't imagine anybody's super happy about this one.
But there's a ceramic studio chain storein Santa Monica and they're taking a
lot of heat because a video hassurfaced of one of their employees dumping dirty
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water down a storm drain. It'soops. The video was posted then deleted
from Reddit. It shows an employeedumping what appears to be green paint,
tinted water or glazed down a stormdrain with a no dumping sign stamped above
the storm drain. Another coworker stoodby am. In the video posted to
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Instagram, one of the employees canbe heard saying, who cares it'll rain?
Oh, well that's a good point, so dump everything in there.
As long as it rains, it'sfine. They've apolloed to the people behind
the studio apologized profusely. I wouldnot be surprised if the guy did it
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is gone, and they actually saidthey're ashamed. That's such a huge mistake
caused by one of our own justfeet from the store. Well, I
don't get why they would go outsidethe store and dump it down a storm
drain. If they were gonna dumpit, why wouldn't they just like dump
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it down the sink, which they'reprobably not supposed to do either. But
you know what, I yeah,well maybe because if they had done it
in the store, somebody else wouldhave seen it and they would have been
in trouble and they thought, we'lljust go out in the back. But
here's the other thing. So theywere caught dumping whatever it was old what
have you down a storm drain.Well, doesn't a ceramic studio constantly have
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this dirty water? So where wasall the dirty water going before? Exactly
before this guy was I assume alot of it was dumped down the drain.
And the saddest part of the storyis that that particular leftovers from the
ceramic studio was from a husband whowent in there and made a coffee mug
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for his wife for Mother's Day.And she'll never tell him, but she
doesn't like it. She thinks itlooks stupid and eventually that little secret that
she's keeping from him is going totear the marriage apart. And yes,
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Amy, there are children involved.It's a sad day. It is a
sad day and a sad made upstory as well. Yeah, this is
sad and not made up. Thegovernment of a New Guinea says that a
landslide that happened Friday has left overtwo thousand people buried alive. Now the
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UN has estimated it's about six hundredand seventy people. They've recovered the remains
of six people so far. AndAustralia, which is the closest neighbor to
this place, is sending a bunchof help to to try to help,
you know, get people out ofthat rubble tragic. Let's just come together,
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shall we. The leaders of SouthKorea, China, and Japan are
set to meet today for their firsttrilateral meeting in more than four years.
So the group got together sort ofyesterday and held bilateral meetings, but they're
gonna all three sit down today.No major breakthroughs are expected, but exerts
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are saying just restarting the high levelAnnual meeting is a good sign for cooperation
among the three Northeast Asian neighbors.So they're supposed to talk about boosting economic
opportunities and other cooperation, but they'realso expected to talk about some rather touchy
subjects like North Korea, Taiwan,and the South China Sea. Now,
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when they were doing the bilateral meetingsyesterday, which country is the low rung
on the ladder. And what Imean is which country had to go back
and forth? Do you know whatI'm saying? Somebody had to get up
and go to a different room.Did South Korea talk to China? And
then who had to get up andgo to a different room to talk to
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Japan? South Korea or China?I think that it. Of course I
don't know, but I would thinkthey all had it because it would make
sense to for South Korea and Chinato talk, and for China and Japan
to talk, and to have SouthKorea and Japan talk without chi seed dating.
Yeah, like speed dating. Oh, this is sad. Now,
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this man lived a long, wonderfullife. Not just his own life was
wonderful, but he made living insouthern California wonderful. Raoul Porthos Senior,
the co founder of Porthos Bakery,has passed away at the age of ninety
two. He and his lovely wifeRosa, came here from Cuba over forty
years ago. They opened the firstPorthos Bakery in Ecco Park on Sunset Boulevard
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and now there are multiple locations aroundthe Southland. And I'll tell you right
now, if you have lived insouthern California. And you have not been
to a Portho's Bakery, You trulyare missing out. That place is so
good and there's always always a hugeline, but that moves quick, it
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does, or you can move veryquickly. You can call ahead too and
order ahead. You can. AndI don't get to see all the stuff
and make your choices because you cansee the stuff on their website. They
have great pictures that you get.You get the idea, you know during
the P word, Yeah, doyou know what I'm talking about? Yes,
when I say the P word,Yeah, if you don't want to
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say pandemic, you don't have to. I was getting. You know,
you could order and then drive upthe one in Burbank. You could drive
up into their and they had peopletraffic control and everything. I mean,
they handled it so beautifully because theywere busy as hell. But you could
order online and drive up and they'dbring it to your car. And I
was doing that every other day andthey Porthos was one of the ones though,
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that you'd pay for it or however, and then they would you'd pop
your trunk and they just put itin the trunk. Right did they do
that with you. In my case, I think they just handed it to
me through the window. But ifI had had more stuff, you know,
I was just ordering food for me. But if you did a big
order, yeah, you could popyour trunk and they'd load it. It's
just the pastries are great, thesandwiches are great. I cannot I could
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myself spend from now until seven o'clockjust praising how amazing Porthos is. And
not every city, even the otherbig cities in this country, they don't
necessarily have something as great as Porthos, and they don't have as great of
a story. I got to talkto Betty Porto, and their story is
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amazing. Where they immigrated from Cuba. They started cooking, like her mom
started cooking out of their their garageor something. And I mean they're totally
self made and have just become thisicon in southern California. Yeah, so
he will be pressed for sure.If you're wondering why every time you drive
past McDonald's now the parking lot isfull of Lamborghini's and Bentley's, Amy's going
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to tell you why fast food isnow luxury. Fast food increasingly seen as
a luxury item by many Americans.Because of the rising prices. That's according
to a lending Tree survey, nearlyeight out of ten people surveyed said they
now view fast food as a luxury. Sixty two percent say they're eating less
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of it because the prices are goneup so much, and half of those
surveyed say they do consider that aluxury because they're struggling financially because of inflation
and all that stuff. So here'show much prices have gone up. McDonald's
has doubled its prices since twenty fourteen. I think they've doubled them since last
year. But that's, you knowwhatever. Popeye's prices are up eighty six
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percent, Taco Bells prices are upeighty one percent, prices at Subway and
Starbucks are up thirty nine percent.And of course here in California, because
of that fast food minimum wage law, the prices are going up even more.
Yeah, at the fast food restaurants, there's a couple that are trying
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to hold it off. Who there'sa It in and Out, no Chick
fil A, no in and outwhere they said they're fighting it. They're
trying not to raise it, butthey just kind of have no option because
you know, they're increasing the salariesof the workers from sixteen to twenty dollars
an hour. Yeah, you knowwhat happened during again the P word.
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Yeah, you can say it pandemic. Yeah you should. If I ever
say that, you should say whatit is so people don't think I'm being
disgusting. Okay, And you know, inflation went crazy and food out,
restaurant food went up more steeply thangroceries. And then when inflation started to
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cool, the inflation on the groceriescooled more quickly than restaurant food. So
there's a definite economic disadvantage now toeating out, not to mention the tax
that you know, the sales taxthat you pay that you don't pay on
groceries. So that's why a lotof people now are saying it is so
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much more economical to just buy foodat the grocery store and make food at
home than it is to eat out. Handle was talking about go ahead,
I was going to say. Handlewas talking about this a couple of weeks
ago, and I was like,they can't be that much because I don't
go to fast food places that much. Trust me, I eat plenty of
food, but I don't I don'tgo to fast food that often. And
I went to Wendy's, which Ilove and haven't been to in a few
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years, and it was it waslike sixteen dollars for a burger, fries
and a little tiny frosty a kid'srusty. Yeah. And it's a combination
of the prices going up and somepeople struggling on top of that, right,
so that that big Mac is gettingfarther and farther out of your economic
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reach. Speaking of economics, veryslow Memorial Day weekend box office numbers.
Now, an interesting thing has happenedthe two big movies Big I guess in
finger quotes, Furiosa, the MadMax prequel, and the Garfield Movie.
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Now, the Garfield movie is alreadyreporting they're estimated four day totals, meaning
including today, even though and I'myou're the news person, so I'll defer
to you on this, but Ifeel like today is not over yet.
But they're saying an estimated four daytotal of thirty one point nine million in
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ticket sales. The Mad Max peopleare not trying to predict the future or
time travel, so they're only reportingFriday, Saturday and yesterday twenty five point
six million these are anemic numbers,and in fact, except during when theaters
were closed during the P word pandemic, these are the lowest opening weekend totals
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since a little movie twenty nine yearsago called Casper. Remember the old that
Casper movie. They came out with, Yes, and I loved it.
I thought it was adorable and itwas and it was the number one movie
the weekend it came out. Butit earned a poultry twenty two point five
million, although that's not adjusted forinflation, so if you adjusted it for
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inflation, maybe it would have beatthese these two dogs, Furiosa and the
Garfield movie. And I don't meandogs that they're bad movies. I'd mean
box office dogs. Although maybe that'snot fair. We're the dogs because we
didn't go out to see them.Did you see either of these movies this
weekend? No? And neither didI see Where the dogs Amy? Okay,
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well we might be Venus Williams isa Barbie. She's a tennis star.
She's won seven Grand Slam Singles titles, five Wimbledon titles, four Olympic
gold medals, and now she willbe immortalized as a Barbie doll. It's
part of the sixty fifth anniversary ofBarbie, recognizing the impact of sports on
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fostering self confidence, ambition, andempowerment among the next generation. So there
are actually nine new Barbies coming out, and all of them represent nine different
countries where the athletes are from.So you probably won't know the names of
any of the other ones, soI'm not going to say them. But
Williams said that she's honored to berecognized as a sports role model and join
forces with Team Barbie to continue empoweringthe next generation of girls. Yeah,
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if you're saying, what about SerenaWilliams, where's her Barbie? Two things
I would like to say. Numberone, Serena Williams posted a thing about,
Yeah, I'm so jazzed that mysister's getting a Barbie, and her
husband posted a thing saying, ohman, I'm going to buy the Venus
Williams barbie or art you know mydaughter. And also Serena Williams didn't have
a Barbie, but did have adoll. All the way back in two
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thousand, there was a company calledplay Along Toys who was selling maybe they
still sell it, a Serena Williamsdoll under the banner of American champions.
So you can't get a Serena Williamsbarbie, but you can get a Serena
Williams doll and now a Venus Williamsdoll, if you would like to do
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that. Okay, mm hmm.And speaking of sports, according to a
wallet hub report, if you're asoccer fan in the United States, the
place you want to be is righthere in Los Angeles, the number one
city for true football get it fans, beating Seattle, beating Portland, beating
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Salt Lake City, beating any ofthe other three hundred cities that they looked
at. In order to be lookedat, you had to have at least
one college or professional soccer team inyour city, and there were three hundred
of them in LA's number one.Do you know we have two major league
soccer teams, we have a NationalWomen's Soccer League team, and historically our
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teams have done pretty good. Imean, we won't really have dynasties the
way that some cities have in somesports at some times, but we are
definitely nothing to sneeze at. Andif you love soccer, they're just that
many options, all right. Thatis handle on the news. This is
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Neil Savedra, who's normally here onthis show, is filling in for Gary
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N. Shannon. So Amy,thank you. First of all, thank
you to Amy King. Why becauseyou are allowing us later in the show
to replay an interview that you did. Oh yes, but Ted Kaebnerck Run
for the Walls. The Run forthe Wall where people get on their motorcycles
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and they leave I think they leftfrom Ontario, yeah, weeks ago,
California. They go all across thecountry and they end up in Washington,
d C. They go to ArlingtonNational Cemetery, they go to the Vietnam
War Memorial and along the way theystop at different locations that are also veteran
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related. So they go across thecountry, stopping periodically to pay their respects
in various ways. They even stoppedthis You probably did not get into with
him, but they made us stopin Nitro, West Virginia, which is
right outside Charleston, West Virginia,where I had the experience of living,
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okay, for six years. Longtime to experience that, huh, well,
yes, long enough that as soonas I got out of college,
I came right back to California.But I know the Nitro area and everything,
so I know where they went.And that was pretty cool. And
that was a and I guarantee youthis, that was a big deal for
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the people of Nitro, West Virginiato have a visit from the run to
the wall people. Hey, anytimeyou have twelve hundred bikes rolling through town,
it's going to be a big deal. Yeah, So thank you in
advance for allowing us to repurpose yourintellectual property. Of course, all right,
we are ready for handle on thenews now. It's me. It's
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Amy King. And here's the leadstory. Storms tornadoes battering a lot of
the Central United States. Texas,Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee,
Kansas got some of it already,eight tornadoes yesterday. Yeah, and they're
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saying, get used to it now. From now through summer, it's gonna
just be The United States of Americais just gonna be a tornado factory.
Nineteen deaths have been reported at leastobviously that will probably go up. But
the other part of it hundreds ofthousands of homes and businesses without power,
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which is problematic because in Texas it'slike one hundred degrees m h. That's
right, it's not the right weatherto have your patn I don't know if
it's ever the right weather to haveyour your power go out, but let's
say sixty eight relative humidity of fiftypercent, maybe it's not the end of
the world if your power goes outfor a while. So there's so many
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people suffering right now in the wakeof these storms. And you know,
they pushed back the Indy five hundredbecause of the weather because there was lightning,
and they made everybody get out ofthere and take shelter, and then
finally when it cleared, they leteverybody go back in so they could run
that race. So it's affecting alot of things. Israel continues to ramp
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up its attacks on Rafa. Dozensof people have been killed in an Israeli
airstrike in Santhera, Gaza Action aidUK is saying at least fifty people,
including civilians, were killed when Israelifighter jets launched eight missiles at makeshift shelters.
And of course the outrage on thisis that these places were supposed to
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be safe spaces for the civilians,but then Action aid UK says they became
targets of brutal violence. The IsraeliDefense forces say that two top Hamas officials
were killed in the air strike.They say they were in that area and
they took them out. This isthe problem when you're dealing with gorilla warriors
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who do embed themselves among civilians.That doesn't mean every single place where there
are civilians in Gaza, there's alsoHamas. But what happens is so they
do that, and then Israel theycan say anytime they want, Hey,
you're saying it was civilians that webombed, but there were Hamas people in
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there that we were trying to getat, and it's Hamas's fault every time
we bomb civilians. It's the faultof Hamas for doing what they do.
And you get to a point whereit's like, okay, can you trust
Israel every time they say that becauseyou're not going to get pristinely accurate information
from either side on this situation.It's bad optics and amy. What do
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you think of the International Court ofJustice ordering Israel to stop it? Which
I'm sorry, it's not a funnysituation, but it's funny because they have
no authority. Yeah, I don'tunderstand anything. I don't understand why it's
even there. What does the InternationalCourt do if it has no authority?
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Well, there are things they cando. There are disputes, usually between
Usually what you have are disputes betweentwo sovereign or could be more than two
I guess sovereign entities, and it'salmost always some kind of land dispute or
something like that. And they cango there and say you decide, International
Court of Justice, that's this kindof a thing. Is not really even
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what they were set up for.And my point is what you really diminish
your credibility when you order people todo things when you're not in a position
of authority to order them to doanything. It's like the difference between if
Robin Bertolucci called right now and said, I want you to talk about the
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new sandwich at subway. She's ourboss. So if she says, I
order you to talk about and Idon't even know if there is a new
sandwich at subway, but I orderyou to talk about. Then we would
have to do it because if wedidn't, we could get in some kind
of trouble. But if like theguy who manned the exit at the parking
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garage here at KFI called up andsaid, I order you guys to talk
about the new sandwich at subway,we would just go who do you think
you are? And that's what theInternational Court of Justice is doing to themselves.
They could have issued some kind ofresolution like we we isshue a resolution
that we don't like it. Wecondemn it, we condemned, Yes,
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we condemn it. They have theeverybody has the authority to condemn. They
do not have the authority to orderanything. And of course Israel turned around
and said this is crazy, likethey're out of it, they're out of
their minds at the International Court ofJustice, and that it's anti Semitic that
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they issued this order that has noteeth in it. Okay, this whole
thing with the upside down flag flyingat the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito. And remember when social mediawent crazy with a picture of an upside
down flag at his house in likeearly twenty twenty one, and everybody was
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saying, this is the same thingthat the election deniers were doing, and
that the stop the Steel people weredoing, and look at it, they're
now Alito's doing it, and thatmeans he's a big He thinks the election
was stolen, and he is biased, and he should not be involved in
anything having to do with January sixthor presidential immunity or anything else. And
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now were finding out that it seemsto be something different, a different reason
that that flag was flying upside downat their house and we and we would
have known it already and would haveknown it a long time ago if the
Washington Post had not decided to burythe story, because apparently the real story
is the Alitos. And I'm noteven sure if it was both of them
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having this beef with a neighbor.It may just have been his wife.
A Washington Post reporter back in twentytwenty one showed up at their house and
missus Alito Martha, and Alito waslike, get out of here, man,
and he was like, what's withthe flag upside down? And she
said, it's an international signal ofdistress. Why don't you ask them,
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meaning her neighbors, ask them whatthey did? And then the Washington Post
decided not to publish the story becausethis was a dispute between neighbors, and
it really isn't a big deal.I mean, it's not a big deal
in terms of any kind of nationalanything. It's probably a big deal if
you're in the neighborhood and you've gotall this drama going on, yes,
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between the neighbors. But I guessmy point is is that we could have
known this when it was happening,and the Washington Post just decided not to
report on it. So now yearslater, years later, these photos leak
and everybody jumps to a different conclusion. But did the photos leak or did
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the Washington Post put the photos out? Well, the photos started showing up
on social media, and that's whynow the Washington Post is like, oh,
oh hey, wait a minute,everybody, this big kerfuffle about the
upside down flight. We actually knowsomething about it. Oh well, thanks
guys. By the way, alittle side note, apparently the neighbor I
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don't know if this is the entiredispute but the neighbor had a sign f
Trump sign and it was near abus stop for a school, and then
apparently another sign disparaging Missus Alito andalso allegedly used the C word to refer
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to Missus Alito. So don't buya house in that neighborhood right now,
a lot of fighting, but hopefullyputting this to rest that they said,
oh, it's because Alito's an electiondenier. Right, if you want to
get away, you're not going tobe alone because it's very, very crowded
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at the airports. And just wantto let you know too that they've issued
a ground stop in Atlanta's airport becauseof the severe weather. So this is
a busy travel day, so officialsare saying, hey, if you're going
to travel, make sure you checkthose fights. First Friday was a record
Yeah, two point nine million peoplewere screened at airport across the country on
Friday. That is the most individualsscreened by the TSA in twenty two years,
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two million, nine hundred and fiftyone, one hundred and sixty three
passengers. And between Friday last Fridayand Wednesday Mondays from now yep, eighteen
million are expected to go through that'sa lot. Oh oh man, that
those HUDs and news are they're goingto be miserable clogged with people trying to
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get beef jerky, I know.And you know they say that a lot
of people are flying this Memorial Daybecause like airfares are down and all of
that. I'm like, not whereI'm looking like to go to a little
Medford, Oregon, which is myhometown. Six hundred bucks. It's because
it's i know, it's a smallerairport and it doesn't have as many options
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and that kind of stuff. Butstill that's that's higher, way higher than
it usually is. That's very pricey, and that's why you're here. Yeah.
And also people among these record peoplegoing through the airports on Friday,
people at LAX got a little somethingextra exposure to measles, they say,
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La County Public Health officials have confirmedsomebody with measles went through the Tom Bradley
International Terminal. This was actually backon May nineteenth, and they were infectious
with the highly contagious disease of measles. They came in on a flight and
then they were in the airport forfive hours and then they got a connecting
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flight out. Now let's be realistic. People sitting next to this person on
the plane, they have something tobe concerned about, and whatever people were
near this person in the terminal havesomething to be concerned about. I'm yes.
If you're not vaccinated, I'm fine. You're fine, and is fine,
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Kono is fine because we were notin terminal seven and we're vaccinated that
as well. You know, thiswas supposed to be eradicated, and then
when some people decided they weren't goingto get a measles vaccine, it opened
the door just a little bit formeasles measles to poke its head out and
go, hey, wait a minute. I think some of you people want
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me back here. I am yeah, but you're right. Most of us
are just fine. Sad news.A star is going out at Disney.
Oh, Jim Jimmy be Jim Jimmy, Me Jim Jim Jimmy us. We've
been as lucky as lucky compy Disneysongwriting legend Richard M. Sherman, remembered
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for Mary Poppins and It's a SmallWorld, along with a lot of others,
has died. He was ninety fiveyears old. He died Saturday in
Beverly Hills. Disney people are sayinghe was a prolific composer, lyricist,
and a key member of Walt Disney'sinner circle of creative talents, and an
Academy Award winner with his brother.He wrote with his brother, Robert B.
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Sherman. They won Academy Awards forMary Poppins Best Score and Best Orational
Best Song for Jim Chimchim Cherie.Yeah, he might actually make a lot
of people mad because he wrote It'sa small world, you know, it's
just a catch. Did they cometo him and say did Walt come to
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him and say, I want youto write a tune that we're going to
play on a loop when people gothrough a ride and it's a ride where
they're going to go inside a placein a little boat, and sometimes the
ride will break down and they willbe stuck in there for a long time
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with the song on a loop?Can you write me something like that?
And he went, Ooh, what'sthe most devious ear where I can come
up with? I don't think so. I think he meant no harm And
there's no rule that says you haveto play the same song all the way
through the ride. I understand,right, they I haven't been on It's
a Small World in a very longtime. But it's the same song,
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but as you go through it's indifferent languages and styles. Yeah, isn't
that right? Amy, I'm lookingat you. You're the Disney expert here.
I was just on it last week. Okay, So, I mean
I sort of understand, but youcould have different, completely different songs throughout
the ride. Maybe they only wantedto pay Richard Sherman for one song for
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the ride. He was like,how long's the ride? It's about five
minutes. No, it's a longone. Oh it's fifteen minutes. Oh
geez, fifteen. He's like,well, let me give you five songs.
Then you're gonna watch five songs,and wals like, no, no,
no, no, we only haveone a budget for one song,
but don't you worry. We're gonnamix it up with with Sometimes it'll just
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be regler singing, and sometimes it'llbe racially offensive and ethnically offensive singing.
Not offensive in any way, shapeor form. It's a wonderful thing.
And here's the other one that hewrote, the tikk Tik Tiki Room.
He's good at those earworm songs.Yeah, Oh, definitely. His stuff
was in Chitty Chitty Bang Banks,Who Become Home, Charlotte's Webb, The
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and something called The Slipper and the
Rose. Is that a Cinderella themedmovie from nineteen seventy six, because I've
never heard of it. It's aCinderella bachelor mashup. Have you seen?
I have no idea. I've neverheard of that. Okay. Johnny Wachter
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was an actor who was on GeneralHospital for two or three years and he
was gunned down in Los Angeles whenhe happened to come across three people who
were stealing the catalytic converter off ofhis car, which is a very popular
thing to have happen. It's apopular crime. Typically, you don't have
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murderous devils doing that kind of crime. Usually it's people who if you come
across them, they will either runaway or they'll just keep They'll just keep
cutting off your catalytic converter. Theywon't stop. But these three guys were
masked, they were obviously armed,and he was shot and he has passed
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away. That's really sad, Okay, who that was my question when I
started reading this story. Chase Oliverhas won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.
It happened on Sunday at the party'sconvention after seven rounds of voting. The
thirty eight year old has previously runfor Congress several times in Georgia. He
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says he got two point one percentof the vote when he ran for Senate
in Georgia, and he says hebelieves that getting two percent of the vote
nationally in November's general election is areasonable goal. It probably maybe it is
a reasonable goal. And I'm gladto see that he's not pretending that he
could actually become the president like RFKJunior. Yeah, at least this guy
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is saying, look, we're herejust to have some kind of a presence,
and if I can get two percentof the vote, then I don't
know, we can go to Bidenor Trump, whichever one is really going
to become the president, and wecan say you should at least listen to
some of our ideas because there aresome of us out here. We are
part of the American political landscape.US libertarians never mind that libertarianism is a
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is a It's like a cartoon character. In the world of politics, it's
not real and it will never bereal. You can't actually have a libertarian
country. It's impossible because it's basedon it's based on the idea that the
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government's going to do like three thingsand everything else is going to be private
sector, free economy. Your road'sgetting paved, your fire departments, you
know your neighborhood will hire a policeofficer and just name. So I just
say name to me. In thehistory of the world, one libertarian country
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that ever existed, thank you.A man's been arrested after police say he
threw a flammable substance on somebody elseat a subway station in New York City.
Nile Taylor is the perpetrators I guessalleged perpetrator's name. He's forty nine,
facing charges of assault and arson andreckless endangerment. He threw this stuff
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on another person to set their shirton fire. I think that person it's
gonna be okay, thank goodness.But here's the kicker. So they arrest
him, and they had double arresthim because they also say he did this
another time back in February on atrain platform in New York City. Where
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he threw a lit container of flammableliquid at a group of people. So
he's got double cases for doing thesame kind of thing here. Look in
Los Angeles, people say Los Angelesis different than New York. We have
the best tacos, they have thebest pizza. We have Hollywood, they
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have Broadway. We have stabbings onour public transit. They have people throwing
gasoline on other people. H sixthone half does in the other. Yeah,
I know how. And he's beenarrested for this before and probably was
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immediately released, which puts him outthere. Don't know how he fits,
Yeah, don't know exactly how hefits into the criminal justice reform of New
York City. Well, they havezero right or cashless bail. They have
cashless or zero bail too, nocash bail. Yeah, but in this
case, we don't know. I'll, you know, here's what I'll do,
even though I don't know when I'llbe back to say anything about it.
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But I'll keep an eye on thisguy and see kind of what happens
with him. Okay. Uh.In eco friendly Santa Monica, they're not
very happy, of course. Ican't imagine anybody's super happy about this one.
But there's a ceramic studio chain storein Santa Monica and they're taking a
lot of heat because a video hassurfaced of one of their employees dumping dirty
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water down a storm drain. It'soops. The video was posted then deleted
from Reddit. It shows an employeedumping what appears to be green paint,
tinted water or glazed down a stormdrain with a no dumping sign stamped above
the storm drain. Another coworker stoodby am. In the video posted to
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Instagram, one of the employees canbe heard saying, who cares it'll rain?
Oh, well that's a good point, so dump everything in there.
As long as it rains, it'sfine. They've apolloed to the people behind
the studio apologized profusely. I wouldnot be surprised if the guy did it
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is gone, and they actually saidthey're ashamed. That's such a huge mistake
caused by one of our own justfeet from the store. Well, I
don't get why they would go outsidethe store and dump it down a storm
drain. If they were gonna dumpit, why wouldn't they just like dump
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it down the sink, which they'reprobably not supposed to do either. But
you know what, I yeah,well maybe because if they had done it
in the store, somebody else wouldhave seen it and they would have been
in trouble and they thought, we'lljust go out in the back. But
here's the other thing. So theywere caught dumping whatever it was old what
have you down a storm drain.Well, doesn't a ceramic studio constantly have
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this dirty water? So where wasall the dirty water going before? Exactly
before this guy was I assume alot of it was dumped down the drain.
And the saddest part of the storyis that that particular leftovers from the
ceramic studio was from a husband whowent in there and made a coffee mug
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for his wife for Mother's Day.And she'll never tell him, but she
doesn't like it. She thinks itlooks stupid and eventually that little secret that
she's keeping from him is going totear the marriage apart. And yes,
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Amy, there are children involved.It's a sad day. It is a
sad day and a sad made upstory as well. Yeah, this is
sad and not made up. Thegovernment of a New Guinea says that a
landslide that happened Friday has left overtwo thousand people buried alive. Now the
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UN has estimated it's about six hundredand seventy people. They've recovered the remains
of six people so far. AndAustralia, which is the closest neighbor to
this place, is sending a bunchof help to to try to help,
you know, get people out ofthat rubble tragic. Let's just come together,
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shall we. The leaders of SouthKorea, China, and Japan are
set to meet today for their firsttrilateral meeting in more than four years.
So the group got together sort ofyesterday and held bilateral meetings, but they're
gonna all three sit down today.No major breakthroughs are expected, but exerts
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are saying just restarting the high levelAnnual meeting is a good sign for cooperation
among the three Northeast Asian neighbors.So they're supposed to talk about boosting economic
opportunities and other cooperation, but they'realso expected to talk about some rather touchy
subjects like North Korea, Taiwan,and the South China Sea. Now,
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when they were doing the bilateral meetingsyesterday, which country is the low rung
on the ladder. And what Imean is which country had to go back
and forth? Do you know whatI'm saying? Somebody had to get up
and go to a different room.Did South Korea talk to China? And
then who had to get up andgo to a different room to talk to
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Japan? South Korea or China?I think that it. Of course I
don't know, but I would thinkthey all had it because it would make
sense to for South Korea and Chinato talk, and for China and Japan
to talk, and to have SouthKorea and Japan talk without chi seed dating.
Yeah, like speed dating. Oh, this is sad. Now,
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this man lived a long, wonderfullife. Not just his own life was
wonderful, but he made living insouthern California wonderful. Raoul Porthos Senior,
the co founder of Porthos Bakery,has passed away at the age of ninety
two. He and his lovely wifeRosa, came here from Cuba over forty
years ago. They opened the firstPorthos Bakery in Ecco Park on Sunset Boulevard
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and now there are multiple locations aroundthe Southland. And I'll tell you right
now, if you have lived insouthern California. And you have not been
to a Portho's Bakery, You trulyare missing out. That place is so
good and there's always always a hugeline, but that moves quick, it
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does, or you can move veryquickly. You can call ahead too and
order ahead. You can. AndI don't get to see all the stuff
and make your choices because you cansee the stuff on their website. They
have great pictures that you get.You get the idea, you know during
the P word, Yeah, doyou know what I'm talking about? Yes,
when I say the P word,Yeah, if you don't want to
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say pandemic, you don't have to. I was getting. You know,
you could order and then drive upthe one in Burbank. You could drive
up into their and they had peopletraffic control and everything. I mean,
they handled it so beautifully because theywere busy as hell. But you could
order online and drive up and they'dbring it to your car. And I
was doing that every other day andthey Porthos was one of the ones though,
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that you'd pay for it or however, and then they would you'd pop
your trunk and they just put itin the trunk. Right did they do
that with you. In my case, I think they just handed it to
me through the window. But ifI had had more stuff, you know,
I was just ordering food for me. But if you did a big
order, yeah, you could popyour trunk and they'd load it. It's
just the pastries are great, thesandwiches are great. I cannot I could
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myself spend from now until seven o'clockjust praising how amazing Porthos is. And
not every city, even the otherbig cities in this country, they don't
necessarily have something as great as Porthos, and they don't have as great of
a story. I got to talkto Betty Porto, and their story is
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amazing. Where they immigrated from Cuba. They started cooking, like her mom
started cooking out of their their garageor something. And I mean they're totally
self made and have just become thisicon in southern California. Yeah, so
he will be pressed for sure.If you're wondering why every time you drive
past McDonald's now the parking lot isfull of Lamborghini's and Bentley's, Amy's going
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to tell you why fast food isnow luxury. Fast food increasingly seen as
a luxury item by many Americans.Because of the rising prices. That's according
to a lending Tree survey, nearlyeight out of ten people surveyed said they
now view fast food as a luxury. Sixty two percent say they're eating less
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of it because the prices are goneup so much, and half of those
surveyed say they do consider that aluxury because they're struggling financially because of inflation
and all that stuff. So here'show much prices have gone up. McDonald's
has doubled its prices since twenty fourteen. I think they've doubled them since last
year. But that's, you knowwhatever. Popeye's prices are up eighty six
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percent, Taco Bells prices are upeighty one percent, prices at Subway and
Starbucks are up thirty nine percent.And of course here in California, because
of that fast food minimum wage law, the prices are going up even more.
Yeah, at the fast food restaurants, there's a couple that are trying
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to hold it off. Who there'sa It in and Out, no Chick
fil A, no in and outwhere they said they're fighting it. They're
trying not to raise it, butthey just kind of have no option because
you know, they're increasing the salariesof the workers from sixteen to twenty dollars
an hour. Yeah, you knowwhat happened during again the P word.
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Yeah, you can say it pandemic. Yeah you should. If I ever
say that, you should say whatit is so people don't think I'm being
disgusting. Okay, And you know, inflation went crazy and food out,
restaurant food went up more steeply thangroceries. And then when inflation started to
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cool, the inflation on the groceriescooled more quickly than restaurant food. So
there's a definite economic disadvantage now toeating out, not to mention the tax
that you know, the sales taxthat you pay that you don't pay on
groceries. So that's why a lotof people now are saying it is so
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much more economical to just buy foodat the grocery store and make food at
home than it is to eat out. Handle was talking about go ahead,
I was going to say. Handlewas talking about this a couple of weeks
ago, and I was like,they can't be that much because I don't
go to fast food places that much. Trust me, I eat plenty of
food, but I don't I don'tgo to fast food that often. And
I went to Wendy's, which Ilove and haven't been to in a few
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years, and it was it waslike sixteen dollars for a burger, fries
and a little tiny frosty a kid'srusty. Yeah. And it's a combination
of the prices going up and somepeople struggling on top of that, right,
so that that big Mac is gettingfarther and farther out of your economic
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reach. Speaking of economics, veryslow Memorial Day weekend box office numbers.
Now, an interesting thing has happenedthe two big movies Big I guess in
finger quotes, Furiosa, the MadMax prequel, and the Garfield Movie.
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Now, the Garfield movie is alreadyreporting they're estimated four day totals, meaning
including today, even though and I'myou're the news person, so I'll defer
to you on this, but Ifeel like today is not over yet.
But they're saying an estimated four daytotal of thirty one point nine million in
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ticket sales. The Mad Max peopleare not trying to predict the future or
time travel, so they're only reportingFriday, Saturday and yesterday twenty five point
six million these are anemic numbers,and in fact, except during when theaters
were closed during the P word pandemic, these are the lowest opening weekend totals
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since a little movie twenty nine yearsago called Casper. Remember the old that
Casper movie. They came out with, Yes, and I loved it.
I thought it was adorable and itwas and it was the number one movie
the weekend it came out. Butit earned a poultry twenty two point five
million, although that's not adjusted forinflation, so if you adjusted it for
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inflation, maybe it would have beatthese these two dogs, Furiosa and the
Garfield movie. And I don't meandogs that they're bad movies. I'd mean
box office dogs. Although maybe that'snot fair. We're the dogs because we
didn't go out to see them.Did you see either of these movies this
weekend? No? And neither didI see Where the dogs Amy? Okay,
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well we might be Venus Williams isa Barbie. She's a tennis star.
She's won seven Grand Slam Singles titles, five Wimbledon titles, four Olympic
gold medals, and now she willbe immortalized as a Barbie doll. It's
part of the sixty fifth anniversary ofBarbie, recognizing the impact of sports on
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fostering self confidence, ambition, andempowerment among the next generation. So there
are actually nine new Barbies coming out, and all of them represent nine different
countries where the athletes are from.So you probably won't know the names of
any of the other ones, soI'm not going to say them. But
Williams said that she's honored to berecognized as a sports role model and join
forces with Team Barbie to continue empoweringthe next generation of girls. Yeah,
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if you're saying, what about SerenaWilliams, where's her Barbie? Two things
I would like to say. Numberone, Serena Williams posted a thing about,
Yeah, I'm so jazzed that mysister's getting a Barbie, and her
husband posted a thing saying, ohman, I'm going to buy the Venus
Williams barbie or art you know mydaughter. And also Serena Williams didn't have
a Barbie, but did have adoll. All the way back in two
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thousand, there was a company calledplay Along Toys who was selling maybe they
still sell it, a Serena Williamsdoll under the banner of American champions.
So you can't get a Serena Williamsbarbie, but you can get a Serena
Williams doll and now a Venus Williamsdoll, if you would like to do
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that. Okay, mm hmm.And speaking of sports, according to a
wallet hub report, if you're asoccer fan in the United States, the
place you want to be is righthere in Los Angeles, the number one
city for true football get it fans, beating Seattle, beating Portland, beating
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Salt Lake City, beating any ofthe other three hundred cities that they looked
at. In order to be lookedat, you had to have at least
one college or professional soccer team inyour city, and there were three hundred
of them in LA's number one.Do you know we have two major league
soccer teams, we have a NationalWomen's Soccer League team, and historically our
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teams have done pretty good. Imean, we won't really have dynasties the
way that some cities have in somesports at some times, but we are
definitely nothing to sneeze at. Andif you love soccer, they're just that
many options, all right. Thatis handle on the news. This is
the Bill Handle Show. It's CAFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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